[Delphinus]

And here are tonight's lessons.

1) It's really hard to feed a piece of mysis onto an itty bitty (1/8") hook.

2) When they say that fish don't see a fishing line, that probably doesn't take into account that actinics will make the line glow blue. They darn well see the line.

3) They're not all that dumb either.
First try - mysis fell off.
Second try - CBB comes and eats the mysis off the hook.
Third try - mysis gets stuck on carpet, carpet eats the mysis.
Pull hook out. Oh yeah, that reminds me of lesson #4.

4) Don't slide your fingers along the fishing line as you pull it out. Continuing with story..

Pull hook out of finger. Put new mysis on hook.
Untangle fishing line from shirt button. Notice that mysis fell off. Put new mysis on hook.
Tang goes for the mysis. Sit and watch in frozen panic. Swims off. Whew.

By this time, both the CBB and the tang realize that when they see the string with the rock attached, that there's a tasty treat on the string. Unbelievable, at this point I can't even "shoo!" them away with the net.

Attempt #3 goes tomorrow, I might try when the halides are on and turn the actinics off so that the glowing fish line is less of a factor.

Although at this point I think I need some better bait. Anyone have large mysis to trade for some small mysis??????